Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There is no point at which the development of the machine is a menace. An iron chisel is better than a flint one, and a steel chisel is better than an iron one. Could there be a point at which the cutting quality of the chisel could be made so fine that it would be a menace? Obviously...
...stomachs. Today, with the Fascist Party comparatively civilized, there is talk in Rome that Civilizer Turati is perhaps "too mild." His successor is not. Up and down Italy nervous people know that Giovanni Battista Giuriati has metaphorically bashed and smashed from Fiume to the Quirinal. But, "man of iron" though he is, the new secretary general's head is comparatively clear. He will scarcely make such a mistake as the Fascist murder of Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti in 1924?the crime which nearly wrecked Il Duce's regime. (TIME, June...
...general textiles and clothing, agricultural implements and products, household machines head the list of imports saddled with higher duties. The steel and iron schedules bristle with slight changes, but of U. S. products only iron pipe is jacked up decisively from $10 to $14 per ton. Because Canada's autompbile industry is as yet too infantile to supply Dominion demands if further protected there is no change in this bracket. Motor cars from the U. S. will continue to enter at 20% (those retailing up to $1,200) and 271% (retailing over...
...fashionable than Newport in the '705, put hump-backed Saratoga trunks in every fashionable attic, Saratoga (thirst-making) chips on every smart table. Throughout the town and the i,ioo-acre state park around it, the springs of Saratoga bubble today as they did 50 years ago through cast-iron hydrants and bronze pipes into dingy pagodas and drinking halls. This despite the fact that Saratoga Springs have the only naturally carbonated water east of the Rockies, that hydrotherapists consider them even more effective than Germany's Bad-Nauheim (Saratoga's nearest chemical affinity) in treating diseases of the heart...
Author William R. Burnett (TIME, July 1, 1929; Jan. 13) wrote five novels, 50 short stories before he published his first book, Novel No. 6. It was Little Caesar, chosen by the Literary Guild (June 1929). His next book, Iron Man, was Book-of-the-Month for January 1930. Successful, married, he lives in Los Angeles...